Model Forum / General / Rockets / June 2005

It's now official and I can let the cat out of the bag.
WOOSH will host NARCON for the third year in a row.  For 2006 those
dates will be March 10-12.  It'll be held at the same location, UW-
Parkside in Kenosha, WI.

  I'm that spastic guy that lost the 18/20 RMS 'cause I messed up
on the ejection charge.  Won't do that again.  Am reading instructions
right and left and know how to deal with that now.  The video links sent
to me really helped out too.

Hi folks, new to the group and the hobby.
Got an Estes Patriot Level 1 for my first project.  I've got it all
ready for painting and would like to have more info for you but not
many folks around here enjoy the hobby.  I'm in NH.

I am looking for a copy of the FlightGraph software that was included with
my Olsen FCP-M2 unit. I had the software loaded on my old Compaq computer,
but alas, it had a big hard drive fart when I tried to transfer to my new
Dell. Needless to say I cannot find the original disk I ...

Posted to alt.binaries.pictures.model.rockets, pictures of missiles fired
by the Daleks in the last episode of the new Dr. Who (June 2005 - "The
Parting of the Ways").  3 shots of missiles in flight - assuming the
totally crapulent Cox news server doesn't lose parts of them like ...

We launched on Sunday, which here was a hot, hazy, very humid day with the
threat of thunderstorms. Winds were fairly beefy early on (10-15mph) but
eased up as the day wore on... and no rain!
My L1 certification flight was "Opportunity Nox", a ~5 lb scratch built,

I've read up on a few articles / posts that are floating around the net
on clustering a FatBoy.
Have narrowed it down to either a 3x24 or (1x24 + 6x18)
The 3x24 seems the easiest way and would be quick & fun.

Hiya,
I joined two 24mm D15 grains today and flew my estes eliminator on
them - (unreal flight) -  is that the equivelent to an E15? Or???
And 3 D15 grains would make a????

These kits are described vaguely by the seller, as if he has little
clue about model rockets.  But the former head of Aardvark, Dr. Kenneth
Johnson, lived/lives in Aloha, Oregon.
Is this just a bit disingenuous?

I'm currently building a 4th of July parade float for our local rocketry
education program. It will be 12" in diameter and ~20ft long. It would be
"way cool" if I could periodically have a countdown and expel simulated
rockets exhaust from the rocket's nozzle while the float ...

Dear Sir and Madam,
You will be very interested to know that we are manufactory of
capacitors, which are ISO-9002 certificated with fine quality. All our
products are RoHS and WEEE compliant.

Here is a time article on the
new one time use video camcorder.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1072716,00.html
Has anybody considering using this

There seem to be many factual errors on flyrockets.com and considering
how many people hit that site, corrections would certainly be wise.
Here is one of perhaps 20 or so errors I have seen:
http://www.flyrockets.com/work.html

I'm looking for the basic design considerations for designing and
building pyramid and cone rockets.  In other words, what are the CG vs
CP relationship, and how do you compute the CP, and does the angle of
the cone matter, etc.  A pointer to a report or newsletter article